Artem Belevich wrote:
2011/8/17 Daniel Kalchev<[email protected]>:
On 17.08.11 16:35, Miroslav Lachman wrote:
I tried mfsBSD installation on Dell T110 with PERC H200A and 4x 500GB SATA
disks. If I create zpool with RAIDZ, the boot immediately hangs with
following error:
May be it that the BIOS does not see all drives at boot?
Indeed. On one of my systems BIOS only allows access to the first four
HDDs in the BIOS' boot priority list. What's especially annoying is
that BIOS keep rearranging boot list every time new device is added or
removed or if SATA controller card is moved to another slot. Every
time it happens I have to go back and rearrange the drives so that my
RAIDZ drives are on top of the list.
If you can boot off CD or USB how many drives does bootloader report
just before it gets to the menu?
Thank you guys, you are right. The BIOS provides only 1 disk to the
loader! I checked it from loader prompt by lsdev (booted from USB
external HDD).
So I will try to make a small zpool mirror for root and boot (if ZFS
mirror can be made of 4 providers instead of two) and the rest will be
in RAIDZ.
If that fails, I will go my old way with internal USB flash disk with
UFS for booting and RAIDZ of 4 disks for storage as I did it few years
ago with 7.0 or 7.1.
Thank you again!
Miroslav Lachman
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